No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification o...f Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is ...a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are.... A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »